01인격
Character
Virtue, integrity, responsibility, discipline, honesty, and the testing of self.
“Is character revealed by crisis, or formed by the choices we make before it arrives?”
A global high-school essay competition
What makes a person worthy of trust?
What do we owe our communities?
And when doing what is right comes at a cost, what gives us the courage to act?
Three questions. Your considered answer.
The invitation
Ideas become character when we live by them.
The Dosan Prizes invite high school students worldwide to wrestle with questions that have shaped individuals, societies, and civilizations.
Named for Dosan Ahn Chang Ho (안창호), the competition draws from his conviction that national renewal begins with the development of people. We are not looking for students to repeat the “right” answers. We seek deep thinking, rigorous argumentation, serious engagement with ideas, and independent conclusions.
Three avenues of inquiry
Questions worthy of a life.
Choose a theme, then meet a question with patience, evidence, and an argument of your own.
02시민 리더십
Civic Leadership
Citizenship, public service, institutions, democracy, and our collective obligations.
“What does a citizen owe to an imperfect democracy?”
03도덕적 용기
Moral Courage
Conscience, dissent, sacrifice, justice, and standing against the crowd.
“When, if ever, does conscience require us to disobey?”
Why Dosan
Education was never merely preparation. It was renewal.
Dosan Ahn Chang Ho believed trustworthy institutions begin with trustworthy people. His life joined independence, education, democratic organization, and daily self-cultivation—not as separate projects, but as one civic calling.
Global eligibility
Students aged 14–18, worldwide.
GATI partner
Pathways to further learning.
Rigorous judging
Five transparent criteria.
The inaugural cycle
A considered process, from first question to final recognition.
NowRegister interest
Entry windowChoose your prompt and submit
JudgingIndependent reading and panel review
AnnouncementWinners, anthology, and insights